Movu

Movu is a medical device company using optical science and engineering for creating an advanced optical imaging devices to help physicians improve the speed and accuracy of diagnosis. Movu is a business unit of Santec Corporation, spun off in 2014 in order to sell the company's ARGOS product, which incorporates SS-OCT and tunable lasers for medical imaging and diagnosis.

Movu's ARGOS.

The company's first product, ARGOS, is a SS-OCT biometer designed to help physicians diagnose patients. It is a non-invasive, non-contact optical biometer. The technology used in ARGOS is developed to have a greater sensitivity than other light-based biometers, with imaging developed to provide better accuracy and confidence in the results. This is done in part by using sixteen infrared LEDs in combination with the OCT signal in order to provide accurate corneal curvature results.

As well, the ARGOS is able to generate images for biometry and keratometry in less than 1 second, and is able of capturing up to six images in less than a second and output three sets of results with a calculated average and standard deviation values. The system is capable of generating these results through the included software, where the ARGOS is controlled from as well.

The Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) technique is the core technology that powers Movu's ARGOS. The technology works to improve on existing optical imaging technologies, using a range of light sources such as lamps, LEDs, and lasers with time resolved and interferometric techniques to develop diagnosis. The Swept-Source OCT (SS-OCT) technique developed by Movu and parent company Santec offers improvements in speed and accuracy over traditional OCT techniques such as SD-OCT and TD-OCT, according to the company. The ARGOS is also developed for greater ease-of-use to help increase the efficiency of biometry for the clinician.